AGE Meeting Minutes
March 8, 2016
4pm, Conference Room
March 8, 2016
4pm, Conference Room
- Progress on goals
- Discussed Stephen Ziliak’s visit
- Seminar on Monday April 4; grad student lunch
- Statistics wanted to help but could not because it conflicted with
- Send all poster info to Christina for her connection to develop a poster
- Contact Janice about setting up lunch
- Students could be invited to come
- Mentoring Program
- We have a sign up sheet, but it hasn’t had much success yet.
- Josh raised the question of what the purpose of the program is
- Suggested asking the third years to mentor the first years
- Set up a social/mixer
- Formalizing it would have the benefit of allowing people to put it on a CV
- Problem of funding a party
- Should we pursue this project this semester?
- Perhaps focus on just the current second year students, gauging who is interested in being mentors next year
- Goal is to have a sheet describing the mentorship program and including names of people who are interested by the end of the semester—party in the summer/early fall/after math camp
- Idea of a reading or research group
- The idea had been raised previously—talk about reviving it
- PE reading group is currently on hold because so many PE faculty are on sabbatical
- Two or three major groups: PE, environmental, development
- Kind of exists as it is in the dissertation seminar
- Have AGE research group leaders?
- How do we encourage attendance and get people to help with AGE projects?
- Satisfaction Survey
- Ruth and Christina wrote up 30 questions—will cut down
- Important thing is making it easy to respond to
- 1-5 ratings for some questions, how often questions
- Other questions are more challenging
- Do you feel faculty members are accessible and available? Yes or no or open answer?
- Raise money for a gift card—either officers pay for it or ask the department
- What is the appropriate length for a survey?
- Include optional comment boxes
- Goal is to have the survey ready by the end of the week after spring break, sent out by beginning of April
- We will ask Jenifer to send out the emails to also include some recent graduates
- Social
- Movie night is postponed to sometime after spring break
- Taxi Tehran
- Tuesday 5pm-7pm after Spring Break
- Hike scheduled for Saturday, April 2
- Send out email about where we are going, carpooling
- Arthur’s Rock
- Relatively early in the morning: 8am
- Movie night is postponed to sometime after spring break
- Discussed Stephen Ziliak’s visit
- Monthly meeting with Steve and Alex
- We should raise concerns about when the office will be closed. Student instructors need to be able to get into the office sometimes. Either need keys, backup person who can let us in, or advanced notice of when the office will be closed.
- Idea raised about holding AGE meetings with alcohol, food off campus
- How can we motivate people to come?
- Send out emails pitching the public good that AGE provides?